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Health Sciences
The domain of mental health and substance use encompasses health-related, social, and economic effects associated with psychiatric, psychological, behavioral, and addictive disorders. With almost a quarter of all Americans impacted, mental illness and substance use continue unabated—alone and in combination—in a tangled web that crosses generations, race, gender, and socioeconomic status. In early 2006, Constella hired a key thought leader, Ronald Manderscheid, Ph.D., who, with 30 years of experience in the fields of mental health and substance abuse, now serves as Constella's Director of Mental Health and Substance Use Programs. For more information about Dr. Manderscheid, please read his bio. Publications
Newsletter:
Quarterly Newsletter for Mental Health and Substance
Use that touches on key topics of particular interest to Mental Health and
Substance Use professionals.
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To request a copy of any of these papers, click on the name of the paper you would like. This will open a new email with the name of the paper you are requesting as the subject line.
- Preparing for Pandemic Avian Influenza: Ensuring Mental Health Services and Mitigating Panic
- Helping Veteran's Return: Community, Family, and Job
Mental Health, United States, 2004
On March 9, 2007, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) released this bi-annual compendium of the latest information available on mental health services. The document was edited by Ronald Manderscheid, Ph.D. , who was also a contributing author. Click here for the press release, and click here for the report.
Articles
Dr. Manderscheid is a regular contributor to Behavioral Healthcare magazine and serves on the editorial boards of numerous publications in public and mental health. Some of his recent published works include:- May 2007 - "A Living Document: Mental Health, United States evolves alongside the field" available online. This commentary provides a short historical perspective on Mental Health, United States, along with some comments on the major policy directions reflected through this publication and likely future policy directions.
- April 2007 - "Returning Vets Need a Network of Care: Where VA services are hard to reach, local behavioral health providers could fill in the gaps" available online. This commentary provides recommendations regarding how mental health and substance use specialists in local communities throughout the US can supplement current VA programs to help reintegrate returning veterans who are battling mental health and substance use problems.
- February 2007 - "Our need for ‘general contractors’: The foundation of proper behavioral healthcare depends on care continuity" available online. This commentary presents proposed strategies for improving behavioral healthcare continuity.
- January 2007 - "Uncle Sam's Role in Staff training: The federal government needs to again play a major role in clinical and leadership training " available online. This commentary outlines the need to develop a national program to support leadership and clinical training.
Presentations
Dr. Manderscheid is a frequent keynote speaker at mental health and substance use-related industry events and conferences. He also presents at various health information technology conferences to promote perspective applications within the mental health and substance use fields. Recent presentations include:- The IOM Report as a Framework for Implementing EBPs," speech at the Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2006.
- "Policy Concerns in Implementing EHRs and PHRs," panel presentation at the Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2006.
Selected Projects
Kent County Michigan—Prevention Initiative Evaluation Project
In 2006, Constella began to support the Kent County, Michigan, Health Department. The Kent County Prevention Initiative is designed to create sustained improvements in the health and well-being of the Kent County population by establishing prevention programs in the areas of child abuse and neglect, substance abuse, and primary prevention family support. By creating a healthier population, the initiative aims to reduce the social and financial burdens on education, health care, and justice systems in Kent County.
For the project, Constella is conducting both short and long-term evaluations of the four programs, which make up The Kent County Prevention Initiative (two are focused on primary prevention family support) to determine the effectiveness of each program individually, as well as their collective impact on the citizens of Kent County.
PTSD Peer Review
Client: Department of Defense, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
(USAMRMC)
The uniquely prevalent wound in the global war on terrorism
is traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI can be caused by blast exposure, gunshot
wounds, motor vehicle injury, or other events. In addition, life threatening
injuries can trigger terror, horror and helplessness. This creates a double
jeopardy in which veterans are simultaneously exposed to the risk of post traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) and concussive head injury.
The Department of Defense has been tasked with funding research into the causes and treatments of TBI and PTSD, and has turned to Constella for support in managing the peer review program. As we do for many other research portfolios DOD funds, Constella will track proposals, find experts, convene and facilitate scientific review meetings, and provide findings and summary reports to DOD so that novel and effective means of treating these wounded warriors can be quickly funded.